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`1` Letters Patent No. 105,962, dated August 2, 1870.

imnovnivmNT IN RAILWAY RAILS.

TherSchecvtle referred to vin these Letters Patent and 'making parto! the same To 'all whomjtt may concern: i

and State Lof` Maryland,"ha\'e invented certain newand useful Inrprovements inl RailroadRails; and Idovherebyfdeu fclare that the followingis affnll and exact description .lhereog reference being had to the- ,accompanyingl 4drawing n'iaking a part o f this application:

Mydnventioli relates to that elas's ofcempound rails in which `the shankof the tread-piece is em-A braced between and secured to the two webs of the fbase-piece; and, e

i `It consists in placing springsbetwecn the upper 4and lower portions, and ,providing interlocking jointsV ofthe tread-piece, to prevent theend'ofone i'ail being i j depressed below the one neit adjoining.

l 5"10 enable those skilled i improved rail, 85e., I will Ito construct and use my proceed `to describe the same, referring by-letters to 'the accompanying drawing, in which` j lf" f l Figure 1 is avertieal longitudinal section, and

. i Figure 2, a cross-section at lineA :l: x, iig. 1,` of niy improved rail.

. i. `Similar letters of` reference denote like parts in 'the diiferent figures.

F when in position.

i These project-ions `are provided with holes (tu for.

i the passageof theboltsb. I i

. Between the projeetions',`and resting upon the haseplate proper, is a series of coiled springs, C, which `1s retained mit" cf i a v l l The bottom ofthe'steln of the rail rests upon these springs, and the said stem is provided with holes for the passage of the `bolts b at4 points which coincide with thebolt-hol'es in the projections'B B.

in place by an occasional raised point or `BeI it known that I, FeNToN A. MERDITH, of4

l Mount Airy, in .'-theicountygof Carroll lthose in the projections in being oblong, so as to allow a slight vertical movement of the'stem. l

This stem upon each rail is eut away at one end, forming a tongue, as seen at D, andV at the other forming a lip, as seen at. E, so that the one exactly fits the other. f

The base of "the tread of one rail forms a stop to the upward movement of the end of the adjoining rail, and theupper edge of theplip prevents the downward movement of the end of'said rail, in consequence of its `forming a support for the tongue, so that neither end of the rail can rise above the next adjoining, forming an abrupt projection, likely .to throw a car from the track, while at the saine time the rails throughout their whole extent are permitted .to be depressed' by..l the weight of the rolling stock upon the, yielding springs.

, `Nochairsor splices are required in the eonstrue` tion of the road, and any rail. may be tak-en ont and replaced by another, and, in the event of a rail heilig V"broken and displaced,'the ear or engine mayride upon the projections B B with less likelihood of being thrown from the track than in the ordinary track.

Having described the construction and advantage j j of myinvcntion, A, represents the continuous bed, formed'with two projections, B B, which stra-dille the stemgof the rail That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A compound elastie-v rail, consisting' of the'base'- piece A, the rails F,with interlocking ends,and the.

spiral springs C, the whole constructed and arranged substantially in the manner 'and for the purposes set In testimony whereof I have" hereunto and seal this 3d day of June, A. D. 1870 FENTONA. MEREDITH.` [L. s.]

set my hand Witnesses:

A.` ANDERSON, S. B. WATERS. 

